[Samba] RE: Password Expiry

Elliot elliot.williams at mutualinterest.com.sg
Tue Oct 15 01:12:00 GMT 2002


Yes as a matter of fact , I did find a solution to it. It was a matter
of lateral thinking.

In your w2k client run regedit

Then go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Under passwordexpirywarning put the value of 0

Reboot and solution solved.



Cheers



-----Original Message-----
From: niraj gupta [mailto:niraj_gupta at imedia-tech.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 7:38 AM
To: elliot.williams at mutualinterest.com.sg
Subject: Password Expiry


> > Hi guys... I setup samba 2.2.5 as a PDC ... I have w2k clients. It
> > seems that now I am prompted to change my password because it is
> > going to expire
> >
> > Could you guys tell me how and where to disable password expiry?
> >
> > cheers`

were you able to find a solution for this i my case i am running debian
unstable which is running 2.999+3.0cvs20, and so users are locked out

thanks
niraj






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